Some tidbits from the company conference call with analysts:
 The version of the Kindle with "special offers" begins shipping tomorrow.
 On Amazon Web Services' downtime: the company said the team is working very deliberately on a way to identify, validate, and fix the root cause of the incident.
 On revenue and state sales taxes, the company said it collects sales tax and value-added tax in approximately 50 percent of its revenue base.
 The company is adding nine additional fulfillment centers this year, though there might be more, which the company has not yet announced.
 On when a customer becomes a digital customer (buying Kindle books instead of paper books, videos, and music instead of CDs and DVDs), the company says those customers are still good physical customers, buying products from other parts of Amazon's business.

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